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Curriculum
Jr - Kindergarten
Language Arts Phonics/Spelling
- Recognizes that words are made up of letters and letters have sounds
- Begins to learn sounds of specific letters
- Identifies beginning sound of words (i.e., what words start with a “B” sound)
- Identifies letters of the alphabet
- Recites alphabet correctly
- Recognizes common words/sight vocabulary
- Develops awareness of the relationship between written and oral language
- Recognizes upper and lower case letter formation
Reading
- Develops sense of being a “reader” (i.e., following along as teacher reads or tape plays)
- Recognizes that printed materials contains information
- Demonstrates proper handling of books and printed materials
- Demonstrates understanding of directionality of written language
- Uses a variety of prereading strategies (previews illustrations, what does title tell you
- Restates/acts out/illustrates familiar story
- Comprehends basic plot of stories that are read aloud
- Recognizes rhythm and rhyme, language patterns
Writing
- Participates in group writing activities
- Generates stories through pictures, narration, dictation
- Begins to anticipate actions in stories
- Writes own name
Public Speaking
- Waits turn to speak
- Speaks clearly
- Articulates beginning and ending of words
Mathematics
- Recognizes symbolic representation
- Compares properties of numbers using manipulatives
- Develops pattern recognition
- Recognizes numbers from 1-25
Physical Education
- Learns to warm up the body
- Does simple stretches
- Balances on a hard surface
- Balances on a balance beam
- Practices all of the various movements there are such as: walking, running, skipping, galloping, and jumping
- Listens and understands various rules to games and activities
- Learns various tagging games
- Learns how use TEAMWORK
- Increases awareness of personal and open space
- Learns how to throw properly
- Learns how to catch big and small objects
- Learns techniques, rules, and games for the following sports: soccer, basketball, baseball and football
- Always practices good sportsmanship
Social Studies
- Knows name, address, phone number
- Understands the concept of a neighborhood
- Identifies types of places (homes, businesses, services, public spaces) in a neighborhood
- Explores the neighborhood of Fisher Island
Science
- Makes observations over time
- Begins using scientific tools (magnifying glasses, magnets, etc.)
- Describes characteristics of different seasons of the year in different places in the US
- Recognizes that the human body has a skeleton to support it
- Identifies major internal organs of the body
Chinese
- Increases vocabulary with other areas of the curriculum
- Greets and follows classroom commands
- Asks and answers concerning name and age
- Sings and recites in Chinese songs and poems
- Repeats spoken pinyin
- Responds to simple commands
- Reiterates simple information from materials presented orally
- Chinese folk stories
- Uses five senses to describe the Chinese concept of the five elements: earth, water, fire, metal, and wood
- Recognizes that calligraphy are pictograms
- Begins to learn sounds of specific ideograms
- Recognizes basic brush strokes
- Develops awareness of the relationship between written and oral language
- Pronounces pinyin sounds
- Recognizes words have syllables, and can distinguish syllables within a word from singe syllable words [ex. Laoshi and ni hao]
- Sees basic strokes in idiograms
- Recognizes and uses rhyming, repetition and rhythm patterns
- Recognizes tones
- Recognizes the difference between nouns and verbs
Spanish
- Recognize and reproduce the sound of the vowels and consonants
- Identify the letters of the alphabet (capital letters and lower case letters)
- Comprehend basic actions of the characters in stories that are read aloud
- Write/copy the alphabet letters and some words from basic vocabulary
- Recognize and say numbers 1-25
- Recognize and say symbolic representations (+,-,=)
- Identify and say basic shapes in geometry (circle, square, rectangle and triangle)
- Identify and say name of common public places in the neighborhood
- Recognize and say names of common occupations
- Identify and say common public signs (stop, yield, women, men, handicap zone, etc)
- Recognize and say the seasons and basic vocabulary about the universe
- Identify and say the name of the body parts
- Recognize and say the names of pets, farm animals and other common animals
- Identify and say the names of colors, fruits and vegetables, family members, feeling, and toys
- Understand and take part in the celebration of most important holidays in Latin America
- Understand and appreciate dances and food from people in Latin America
- Take part of field trips to different events/exhibitions about countries in Latin America
- Memorize most popular songs from Latin American countries
- Say common greetings for different parts of the day
- Ask basic questions about vocabulary
- Say their names, telephone numbers and their parents’ names
Art
- Completes art projects relevant to curriculum through many different media
- Begins to hold and use art tools correctly
Music
- Sings simple songs with class
- Begins to coordinate movements to songs and music
- Explores fundamentals of rhythm through physical movement and use of Orff instruments
Computer and Technology
- Uses a variety of media and technology resources for directed and independent learning activities across the curriculum
School Skills
- Listens for information/direction
- Follows simple, one-step instructions
- Copies letters of the alphabet and simple words in block printing
- Shares with others; takes turns
- Focuses for an appropriate length of time on one activity
- Changes activities when directed
Thinking Skills
- Develops reasoning, decision-making and problem-solving abilities
- Compares attributes of concrete items
